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SBA chief rolls out export grants program in Raleigh

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

An Obama administration official says small businesses like one she visited in Raleigh on Tuesday can compete globally to sell their products thanks to technology, loans and now with the help of some grants. Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills joined Gov. Beverly Perdue at Raleigh Denim's downtown offices to announce that North Carolina is receiving $603,442 from the federal government to boost exports. It's part of a pool of $30 million being distributed nationwide.
'Rock 'n roll' presidential race holds 'heavyweight bout' in NC

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Kevin Holmes |Bill Herrero |Anne Johnson

With 100 days left until Election Day, two heavy hitters in presidential politics held competing events in the Triangle Saturday, once more highlighting North Carolina's status as a battleground state. "One hundred days, it's going to be rock 'n roll for the whole period," Peace College political science professor David McClennan said.
McCrory unveils NC public education platform

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

Pat McCrory's road map for public school improvements if he's elected North Carolina governor includes familiar stops from his 2008 campaign and builds on current initiatives. The presumptive Republican gubernatorial candidate unveiled his platform Wednesday for K-12 education at the north Raleigh campus of Wake Technical Community College.
Governor's race heats up with litigation over TV ad

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

Pat McCrory's campaign and the political committees behind a television commercial McCrory says is false filed competing legal actions that raise the ante in North Carolina's gubernatorial race. The Democratic Governors Association and the group North Carolina Citizens for Progress filed a complaint in Wake County court asking a judge to rule the commercial about McCrory's connections to a Charlotte-based business as true and constitutionally protected.
Officials get permission to close Dix hospital

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

North Carolina's oldest state mental hospital could be shuttered for good by this summer now that statewide elected leaders agreed Tuesday that the nearly two dozen remaining forensic patients can be moved to a more modern location. The Council of State – comprised of Gov. Beverly Perdue and nine other elected officials – voted to give its formal blessing to the Department of Health and Human Services to close Raleigh's Dorothea Dix Hospital on Aug. 10.
Folt installed as UNC-Chapel Hill's first female chancellor

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Leyla Santiago |Bill Herrero |Kelly Gardner

Celebrating its 220th birthday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday installed its 11th chancellor and first female leader. "I am overwhelmed by Carolina warmth and a Tar Heel welcome," Carol Folt, the former president at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, told an estimated crowd of about 2,500 students, faculty and staff who gathered Saturday in Polk Place on the Chapel Hill campus.
Perdue wants higher sales tax for education

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Matt Burns |Kelly Gardner |Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero

Gov. Beverly Perdue said Tuesday that her budget proposal for next year will include a temporary sales tax increase to restore education cuts made by the Republican-led General Assembly when they let a similar tax expire last July. The announcement by Perdue, made during a visit to a Greensboro elementary school, comes four months before the legislature returns to town for its budget-adjusting session.
Audit: Doc overcharged the state $500K to treat prisoners

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Jodi Leese Glusco

An audit of records from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety found that a doctor contracted to treat prisoners overstated time worked, to the tune of at least $567,125 in overpayments. Dr. Sami Hassan is now the subject of a criminal investigation after State Auditor Beth Wood's office found he charged the Department of Public Safety for four times the number of hours he actually spent working at five prisons.
Legality of new voter ID mandate argued in federal trial

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

North Carolina's new voter identification mandate, which starts with the March primary, is on trial in federal court in Winston-Salem this week. The U.S. Justice Department, the state NAACP and several North Carolina residents contend the requirement to show photo ID to vote in person is illegal and will make it harder for black and Latino residents to cast ballots.
Audit: NC agency rarely fined gas rules violators

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero |Matt Burns

A state agency responsible for checking the safety of propane and other liquefied petroleum gas facilities rarely fined operators even when they repeatedly violated regulations, according to an audit released Thursday.